TextPiping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he, laughing, said to me:

“Pipe a song about a lamb,”So I piped with merry cheer;“Piper, pipe that song again!”So I piped: he wept to hear.

“Drop thy pipe thy happy pipe,Sing thy song of happy cheer!”So I sang the same again,While he wept with joy to hear.

“Piper sit thee down and writeIn a book, that all may read.”So he vanished from my sight:And I plucked a hollow reed,

And I made a rural pen,And I stained the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear.

William Blake

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